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1'" long : lobes triangular ; corolla crimson, ovate, contracted above, 3'" long : limb erect, 

 V" long, with the lobes triangular; sexual organs included.— Hab. Trinidad {Sieb.) , [Gua- 

 deloupe !, on the top of the mountains, Venezuela !, New Granada !]. 



Subtkibe 2. VACCINIEM— Calyx adnate. 

 4. SPHYROSPERMUM, Pcepp., Endl. 



Calyx-limb 4-5-toothed. Corolla ovate-urceolate. Stamens 4-5, distinct : anther-cells 

 distinct above, tapering into a narrow tube, opening with an oval foramen. Ovary 2-4-5- 

 celled : cells multiovulate. Pericarp baccate. — Epiphytical shrubs ; leaves distichous ; pe- 

 dicels filiform, axillary, simple. 



7. S. majus, Gr. (in PI. Lechl.). Branchlets and petioles puberulous ; leaves ovate, 

 obtusate, blunt, subcordate at the base, glabrous : petiole very short ; pedicels solitary, as 

 long as the leaf; calyx-tube pilose, globose ; anthers 4, bifid to the middle. — Allied to S. 

 buxifolium, Pcepp., but leaves larger, and berry (in the Peruvian specimens) 4-celled. 

 Branches rooting on trees ; leaves 1" long, 8'" broad ; pedicels cernuous, thickened at the top, 

 nearly glabrous ; calyx 1'" long, covered with long white hairs ; corolla 2'" long, as long as 

 the stamens : its limb very short, recurved, 4-partite : the tube slit at the base or separated 

 into four very short claws ; connective bearing some hairs. — Hab. Trinidad !, Cr. ; [Peru !]. 



5. SOPHOCLESIA, Kl. 



Calyx-limb spreading, 4-5-toothed or entire. Corolla tubulose, turgid above the base. 

 Stamens 8-10, distinct: filaments alternately unequal : anther-cells distinct and tubuliform 

 from the middle, opening with an oval or oblong foramen. Ovary 2-4-5-celled : cells 

 multiovulate : style exserted. Berry dry. — Epiphytical shrubs : habit of Sphyrospermum. 



8. S. apophysata, Gr. (n. sp.). Glabrous; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with a 

 bluntish point ; pedicels subsolitary, jointed and bibracteolate at the middle, twice or more 

 exceeded by the leaf ; calyx-tube swelling at the base into an annular apophysis : limb 

 entire. — An evergreen shrub: branches flaccid; leaves 2"-l" long, 18"'-8'" broad, rigid, 

 quite entire, revolute on the margin, obsoletely quintuplinerved, polished and veinless beneath : 

 petiole 4"'-2'" long, flat above ; pedicels 4"'-8"' long : bracteoles i"' long, ovate, contiguous 

 at the base ; calyx 2'" long and broad : tube shortly campanulate, shorter than the spreading 

 limb : apophysis convex on the margin and concave on the under side ; corolla 8'" long, 

 1'" diam. above, 2'" above the base : limb erect, 5-partite : segments linear, blunt, six times 

 shorter than the tube ; stamens very unequal, the longer ones not exceeding half the corolla : 

 anthers punctate-scabrous, 1^'" long, linear, shorter than the long and longer than the short 

 filaments, inserted to the filament above their base ; stigma simple, minute ; ovary 5-celled, 

 protruding above its aduate base. — Hab. Trinidad !, Pd., Cr., in the hot region between 

 Arima and Aripa de Abaja, Tocuche. 



6. THIBAUDIA, Kth. 



Calyx-limb 5-lobed. Corolla tubulose, turgid above the base. Stamens 10, distinct, of 

 equal length : anther-cells distinct, tapering above into a narrow tube, opening with an elon- 

 gated foramen. Ovary 5-celled : cells multiovulate. Berry dry.— Evergreen shrubs ; flowers 

 usually in axillary racemes or corymbs. 



9. T. latifolia, Gr. (n. sp.). Branchlets glabrous, cylindrical; leaves elliptical or 

 roundish, septuplinerved, shortly cuneate at the base, glabrous ; racemes lax, usually aggre- 

 gate, pubescent together with the small flowers ; bract3 lanceolate, small, one at the base of 

 the pedicel and two above it. — This species does not answer to any of the sections which 

 Klotzsch has separated as genera from Thibaudia, but it is allied to my Peruvian Th. poly- 

 antha. Crueger remarks that the corolla-tube is double, and both tubes 5-fid : this may 

 have been a monstrosity, as it is not so in his specimens. — Leaves 9"-3" long, 5"-2V broad, 

 sharply pointleted or bluntish, quite entire, leathery, with the nerves prominulous beneath : 

 petiole 8"'-3'" long, 2'" broad, enlarged into the cuneate leaf-base ; racemes usually 2—5 in 

 each axil sessile 3"'-l" long, surrounded at the base by minute, subulate bracts, wholly co- 



